SAO Image Gallery

In this page SAO student, alumni and instructors and staff and students of the
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
have the opportunity to show their own images of astronomical
objects, which may be taken using any telescope, conventional camera or CCD camera.

How to submit your imagesIf you have an image you would like to appear in the SAO Image Gallery, send it via email
to SAO Assistant Coordinator Glen Mackie (gmackie @ swin.edu.au). You can send
your image in gif or jpeg format and together with it you should include a brief "story of
your image" (what the image shows, how, where and when you took it). We will select the best of the
submitted images and put them online.

Click on preview image to get full-sized image

Star trails by Sharon Harnett

"This image was composed of 177 images taken from 1123pm on 30 March 2012 to 1239am 31 March 2012. The image was taken looking to the south from my backyard in suburban Canberra. The images were taken with a Canon DSLR 400D, 10mm lens, at ISO 800, f3.5, with a 24 second exposure. I then stacked the 177 images using StarStax to form startrails."

Aurora Australis by Alex Cherney

"After chasing it for more than two years, I was finally rewarded with two displays of Aurora Australis within a week, visible from the southern tip of Mornington peninsula, not far from Melbourne. The nights were warm an clear and the Moon was not in the sky either - I could not have asked for better conditions." (Alex's gorgeous image also made it to APOD, and you can view the animated sequence on vimeo.)

NGC7293 by Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough

"NGC 7293 (Helix Nebula): a difficult target, lying just above the horizon, even in France. Taken with C11, Hyperstar 3 @ f/2, Starlight Xpress H18, Astronomik Ha & S[II] filters & Sloan g-r-i photometric filters. Not the usual combination, but I was using the Sloan filters for other work and decided to continue with them. 5.5 hours & 68 images total."

"Orion Nebula, M42 and M43, imaged with a Meade Classic LX-200 10-inch
Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Using a Lumicon deep sky filter and a Canon T2i DSLR camera
with mixed ISO's of 800, 1600, 3200 and 6400 taken at 20 second exposures. Images were
stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with post processing in GIMP for a total exposure of 14
minutes. Photos taken with on
the University of New Hampshire Observatory grounds, Durham, New Hampshire, USA."

M31 by Marek Cichanski

"SBIG ST-8300M monochrome camera. The camera uses the same Kodak 8300 CCD chip as the QSI camera. I shot my unbinned R, G, and B images through a set of Orion 2" color filters, mounted in an Orion filter wheel. It was a dark-moon weekend at the end of September, 2011 - the occasion for this year's California Star Party (`Calstar')."

Eagle nebula by Marek Cichanski

"This image is the product of a week
of data acquisition at the end of July/beginning of August,
2011. A group of friends and I make a yearly pilgrimage to Lassen
Volcanic National Park, northern CA, USA. The image consists of
a few hours each of: R, G, B, and
H-alpha filters using an Orion ED80
semi-apo refractor, 80mm, f/7.5. I borrowed a friend's QSI 583
monochrome CCD camera with a built-in
LRGBHa filter wheel. I was using a pretty simple `Sirius'
mount, also from Orion, and one of their guiding setups - a
`StarShoot' autoguider camera. Acquisition,
autoguiding, and dithering were done with MaximDL.
I did my image calibration and processing in Pixinsight."

Jupiter by Jim Katsifolis

17 Oct 2011: "If you look closely at the attached image you can see Ganymede passing in
front of Jupiter at bottom left, and Io just to the right of Jupiter. I used a Thorlabs DCC 1645C USB camera
at the primary focus of a Meade 8" SCT, and took 2000 frames at 21 frames/sec which was
processed with Registax 5.1."

The Southern Cross - Canon EOS 20Da & 24-105mm @ 55mm, 14x6s, no
tracking. NGC4755 "Jewel Box" southeast of Be Crux; NGC3766 near the
top right corner of the photo.

Ptolemaeus walled plain; by Jim Katsifolis

26 October, 2009: Meade LXD-55 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain, Philips ToUcam at prime focus. Processed with Registax 5.
From far right of centre is the small crater Herschel (43km wide and 2.77km deep). To its left next to it is Ptolemaeus, a
walled plain 158km wide. To the left of Ptolemaeus are two craters, Alphonsus (121km wide and 2.7km deep) and Arzachel (100km
wide and 3.6km deep).

Mare Vaporum; by Jim Katsifolis

26 October, 2009: Meade LXD-55 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain, Philips ToUcam at prime focus. Processed with Registax 5.
Mare Vaporum (lower left of centre), with crater Manilius (41km wide and 3.1km deep) on
the left side and crater Wallace (27km wide) to the right of the mountain range. The top area of the visible
mountain range features the following named mountains/peaks - Mons Huygens (height 5.4km) , Mons Ampere
(3km high) and Mons Wolff (3.5km high).

Hyperstar 3 lens and Starlight Xpress SXV-25C camera at prime focus (in place of the secondary mirror),
making my 11” Celestron a very fast imager with a wide FOV. Sculptor Galaxy, 40 minutes exposure under lousy conditions – lots
of water vapor and dust in the air, and the galaxy was only about 20 degrees above the horizon.

M42, M43 & NGC 1977; by Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough

Hyperstar 3 lens and Starlight Xpress SXV-25C camera at prime focus (in place of the secondary mirror),
making my 11” Celestron a very fast imager with a wide FOV. A composite of two series, one from
southern France and one from the back yard, total 1 hour 15 minutes.

A prototype of the Galileo replica, made from cardboard and paper. The printed paper skin of the replica has leather texture
and correct ornamentation, so it looks very much like the final replica made from wood staves and leather covering, with ornamentation mostly hand-painted in gold.

Replica Galileo Galilei telescope; by Pekka Rautajoki

Observing session during a cold night in snowy Finland with a replica Galileo Galilei telescope. The replica is made from
wood staves and covered with leather. The builder of the replica, Pekka Rautajoki, stands in the background with his wife Saila
Rantajääskö in front. Anni observes through the scope, and her mother Johanna points at the stellar globe in the background.

10 August 2008: Partial Solar Eclipse; by Karl Benz

See image for details!

10 August 2008: Partial Solar Eclipse; by Karl Benz

See image for details!

Lunar Apennines; by John Gianforte

Image was taken from the University of New Hampshire Observatory in Durham, New Hampshire, USA on February 24-2007 through a Celestron C14 using a Meade DSI imager. 200 images were stacked using Registax.

Alpine Valley (Vallis Alpes); by John Gianforte

Taken Feb 24, 2007 through the University of New Hampshire C14 telescope, with a Meade DSI imager-images were stacked in Registax.

NGC 6543 The Cats Eye nebula; by John Gianforte

The image was taken through the 82 inch Otto Struve telescope with a Canon 20Da DSLR and the exposure time was 30 seconds, at 800 ISO, and was taken on July 23, 2006 at 05:02 UT. I was assisted by Marc Wetzel in taking this image.

Full Moon; by Tim Hunter

It contains 50 images taken on December 23rd, 2007 with a Lumenera web cam on a Meade 12-inch LX200 telescope. Imaged at f/10 instead of f/20 as usual and got away with it as the individual images and features are relatively small on the mosaic.

Moon in eclipse; by John S. Gianforte

Taken on Feb. 20, 2008 through a Meade 127ED APO refractor with a Canon 20Da, during a special public observing session at
the University of New Hampshire Observatory.

Comet Holmes - November 18, 2007; by Tim Hunter

This image was taken with a 60 sec exposure using a Canon 20da camera at ISO 800 through a
Meade LXD55 8-inch f/4 telescope. Mirfak [mag 1.8 (v)] is the bright star near the comet.

Comet Holmes - November 9, 2007; by Tim Hunter

Taken 135 mm f/3.5 lens on a Nikon D100 camera using a 5 second exposure and ISO 800. The numbers next to the bright stars
represent their Mag (v) as listed in MegaStar 5.0. Notice how much the comet has grown in size since my images of October 24, 2007.

Time series of Minor Planet 28736; by David Higgins

I was undertaking time series images of Minor Planet 28736 when I noticed it
was traversing a stellar void. I co-added 44 images in the series
resulting in the equivalent of an approx 3 hr exposure of this region of
space revealing some detail in what is classified a dark nebula (LBN 19, LDN
188 or LDN 175 - not sure which one since the star charts put all 3
overlapping each other). The brightest pixel of the brightest part of the nebular measures magnitude
20. The image is 25' x 18'). The 'dotted' line is my target Minor Planet.

Phases of Moon; by Tim Hunter

This is an animated gif of the Moon phases from day one through day 27. Individual images of the Moon were
taken daily in the Spring of 2005 with a Meade LPI camera on a Celestron 2.4 inch f/10 telescope. The images were collected over approximately two Lunar cycles.

Comet Holmes Wide Angle; by Tim Hunter

Taken on Wednesday evening October 24, 2007 at 9:00 pm local time with a 15 mm f/4 lens on a Nikon D100 digital camera with a 10 second exposure at ISO 800. Cassiopeia is the upside down chair above and left of center. The green fuzz ball in the upper right corner is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the nearly full Moon causes an unwelcome glow coming from the upper right hand corner. Perseus is just below center, and the comet is circled. Note the Pleiades near the lower right hand corner. Two radio towers are partially seen in the lower left hand corner.

Comet Holmes 50mm; by Tim Hunter

Taken on Wednesday evening October 24, 2007 at 9:15 pm local time. It zooms in on Perseus which is partially shown just to the right of center. The image orientation is the same as above. This is a 10 second exposure with a 50 mm f/2.8 lens on a Nikon D100 digital camera at ISO 800. The numbers next to the bright stars represent their Mag (v) as listed in MegaStar 5.0. The comet is currently an easy naked eye sight. It wouldn't be such a big deal as it has no tail except that it is a gorgeous sight through a telescope, and it suddenly brightened a millionfold.

Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237); by Kevin Sweeney

Taken on 28/2/2007 from Ireland using a Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD camera attached to an ED80 refractor, piggybacked
on a 10" Meade LX200. HaRGB format with exposures of 8x10min for the H alpha and 3x10min each for the colour. Processed with
MaxIm DL and AstroArt

M45/Pleiades; by Kevin Sweeney

Taken from Ireland on 5/3/2007 using the same setup as above. LRGB format with exposures of 10x5 mins for
the luminance and 3x5 mins each for the colour. Image acquisition and processing using AstroArt with final
filtering using Neatimage. The diffraction spikes were produced (for effect) by two pieces of thread taped
across the open end of the telescope.

NGC 6822; by Bob Sackett

Taken at Kitt Peak using a 16" Meade SCT and an SBIG ST-8
camera with appropriate filters for color. Note the Bubble Nebula
if you look real hard. Processed with Maxim DL and Photoshop.

NGC 6951; by Bob Sackett

Taken at Kitt Peak using a 16" Meade SCT and an SBIG ST-8
camera with appropriate filters for color. NGC6951, a barred (SBbc) spiral Seyfert galaxy in
Capricornus. Processed with Maxim DL and Photoshop.

Helix Nebula; by Tim Jensen

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA using a modified (IR filter removed) Canon Digital Rebel XT camera mounted on an Orion ED80 refractor piggybacked on a 10" Meade LX200
GPS. Over 5 hours of 2 minute exposures were taken over two weeks to create this image. Processed using ImagesPlus and Photoshop CS.

M 63; by Tim Jensen

Taken at prime focus of 10" Meade LX200GPS using an unmodified Canon Rebel XT. 90 one minute exposures were combined using ImagesPlus and Photoshop.

Horsehead and Flame Nebula; by Tim Jensen

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA using a modified (IR filter removed) Canon Digital Rebel XT camera mounted on an Orion ED80 refractor piggybacked on a 10" Meade LX200
GPS. A total of 3 hours of 3 minute exposures were taken and combined using ImagesPlus and Photoshop CS.

NGC 253; by Tim Jensen

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA using a modified (IR filter removed) Canon Digital Rebel XT camera mounted on an Orion ED80 refractor piggybacked on a 10" Meade LX200GPS. A total of 3 hours of 3 minute exposures were taken and combined using ImagesPlus and Photoshop CS.

Transit of Mercury (8 November, 2006); by Jim Katsifolis

Here are a couple of images I took early this morning (around 7:30am) of the transit of Mercury across the Sun.
I used a CCD webcam on a Coronado Solar scope with H-alpha filter. Images touched up with Registax 3. See if you can
pick out Mercury in the images before looking at the pdf...

Canon XT DSLR camera (unmodified), Orion ED80 telescope piggyback
mounted on 10" LX200GPS. Location: Baton Rouge, LA Date: Sept 20, 2006 30 1 minute images
captured at ISO 800. Images were
dark, flat and bias corrected then average combined with ImagesPlus software. DDP stretch using ImagesPlus.
Cropped to final size and colour balanced using Photoshop CS. Sky gradient removed
using GradientXterminator. Comment: "Light pollution forced short exposures, but I was surprised to see so much
detail with such a small aperture telescope".

Total Solar Eclipse; by Leland Wehland

Taken March 29, 2006 at Salum, Egypt using a 400 mm lens, 1.4 x teleconverter, and a Nikon D70 camera.
This picture was taken during totality. The corona is visible and you can see the curvature at the north
and south magnetic poles of the sun. Comment: "We were about 2 miles from the Libyan border and had traveled since
midnight to arrive in time".

Prior to Totality; Leland Wehland

Just prior to totality - Taken March 29th, 2006 at Salum, Egypt using a 400 mm lens, 1.4 x teleconverter and
a Nikon D70 camera. Comment: "You can see a prominence at the top left of the picture".

Iris Nebula; by Ricky Murphy

Iris Nebula, NGC 7023. It was taken with two different telescopes; a 12" SCT and a 20" RC
using the STL-11000 CCD camera. The image is an LRGB with an exposure of 120 x 60 x 36 x 72 in minutes.

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA using an Orion 80ED telescope piggybacked on a
10" LX200GPS. Photographed using a Canon 10D DSLR. Multiple exposures of 30
seconds, 1 and 2 minutes were combined using Images Plus and Photoshop. The
Trapezium region of M42 was created from the shorter exposures and layered into
the longer exposures using Photoshop to preserve the core detail. Total
exposure time 10 minutes.

Mars; by Tim Jensen

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA on 2 Nov 2005 using a ToUcam Pro attached to a
10" F10 LX200GPS and a 3x TeleVue Barlow. Approximately 2500 frames of an
AVI were captured and stacked using RegiStax. Final processing done using
Photoshop.

Saturn; by Tim Jensen

Taken from Baton Rouge, LA on 17 Oct 2005 using a ToUcam Pro attached to a
10" F10 LX200GPS and a 3x TeleVue Barlow. Approximately 1200 frames of an
AVI were captured and stacked using RegiStax. Final processing done using
Photoshop. The northern hemisphere is now clearly visible above the rings.

Moon eclipse; by Dennis Larcombe

October 27, 2004. One is of the moon rising over the mountains where I live in
Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada. It was already partially eclipsed as
it came over the mountain. This was taken by hand holding a
Canon Powershot 1S IS over the eyepiece of my 8 inch Dobsonian. The
focal ratio was f 5.6 for 1/30 of a second.

Moon eclipse montage; by Dennis Larcombe

October 27, 2004. Collage of images made using the same camera (as above) at 10X
optical zoom (focal length 58 mm) and various exposures. The images
were then assembled with a program for the Mac called Graphic
Converter.

Eagle Nebula, Messier 16; by Donn Starkey

Located in Serpens just north of the constellation Sagittarius, it is about 7000
ly from Earth and is a bright emission nebula. The three central columns
are each several light years in length and are composed of hydrogen gas,
creating a star forming region. This image was taken on August 21, 2005 and is the median average of
9 x 10 minute images taken in Ha [Hydrogen Alpha band]. The only image processing is a gamma
stretch. The telescope is a 0.41m Ritchey-Chretien and the camera is an SBIG ST-10XME.

Comet Hale-Bopp; by Rob Jones

Taken March, 1997 on Kodak PPF 400 speed print film. A piggybacked Nikon
F5 with 200mm lens at f/2.8 was used. The exposure was 10 minutes in duration. The image was manually
guided with a 12" cassegrain.

Mars; by Tim Jensen

Taken August 16, 2003 from Baton Rouge, Louisiana using a Vesta Pro web
cam attached to a Meade 10” LX200GPS SCT via a 2x Barlow. A 650 frame AVI was captured and combined using
RegiStax software and Photoshop.

Jupiter; by Tim Jensen

Taken April 9, 2005 from Baton Rouge, Louisiana using a ToUCam web cam
attached to a Meade 10” LX200GPS SCT via a 3x Barlow. 2000 frames were captured and stacked using RegiStax with final processing using Photoshop.

Saturn; by Tim Jensen

Taken March 23, 2005 from Baton Rouge, Louisiana using a ToUCam web cam
attached to a Meade 10” LX200GPS SCT via a 3x Barlow. 2000 frames were captured and stacked using RegiStax with final processing using Photoshop. Note, there is a hint of the C Ring visible!

The picture was taken with Canon Powershot A80 camera, exposure 1/4s at
F3.5 (19:25 UT on May 26th).

Eta Carina Nebula; by Peter Starr

Picture taken with canon 300D digital camera, Meade LX200, 14" using a focal reducer F/6.3.
35 x 30 second exposures iso 1600 stacked with Maxim DL. Taken from Starr Observatory, near
Coonabarabran, New South Wales, 26-2-05 on a full moon night.

Lunar eclipse of October 28th, 2004; by Eduardo Manuel Alvarez

A combination of eleven single photos in Adobe Photoshop 6.0
after being digitized. Each lunar frame has the original surface colours as they appeared in the
corresponding printed images. The sequence started at right and ended at left, as it actually happened
observed from my southern sky. The used technique was piggyback, the film was Kodak Gold ISO 100, the
lens was 500-mm at f/8, and the exposure times were respectively 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/1000, 1/250, 15, 8,
8, 1/500, 1/250, 1/1000 & 1/2000 seconds. Finally, I added the UT time for each
shot.

Lunar eclipse of October 28th, 2004; by Eduardo Manuel Alvarez

This picture was taken in a single frame containing 31 shots at
five-minute intervals (although not all the intervals were exactly five-minutes long, as the slight
differences in separation of the lunar disk betrays). The sequence started at right and ended at left,
as it actually happened observed from my southern sky. The technique used
was a fixed camera on tripod, the film was Kodak Ultra ISO 400, the lens was a 50-mm, and the aperture
diaphragm was set at f/8 for the first shots, varying the exposure time from 1/500 to 1/15 second, then
at f/4 for the following 17 shots (the totality part) varying the exposure from 4 to 2 to 1 second and
back again, and the last six shots again at f/8, from 1/15 to 1/250 second.

NGC 7000 (North America Nebula in Cygnus); by Tim Jensen

A composite of 9 images taken using a Canon 10D DSLR camera
and 70-300mm zoom lens at 300mm. Each individual image is a composite
of 7 x 3 minute exposures combined using ImagesPlus software. A total
of 63 images were taken and combined. Darks, Flats, and bias images
were applied and brightness, gamma and colours corrected in Photoshop.
Mosaic image created using RegiStar software.

Orion (Messier 42); by Tim Jensen

A composite of 5 images taken using a Canon 10D digital SLR
camera and 70-300mm zoom lens at 200mm. Each individual image is a
composite of 10 x 1 minute exposures that were combined using
ImagesPlus software. A total of 50 images were taken. Dark fields,
Flat fields, and bias frames were also applied. The 5 images were
then combined into one wide field image mosaic using RegiStar
software.

V band photometry of the transit of the
exosolar planet TrES-1 and an image of the program star. The following data was extracted:
Ingress Time: 2473271.547 JD, Central Transit Time: 2473271.647 JD,
Egress Time: 2473271.747 JD [extrapolated] using an 16" Ritchey-Chretien telescope and an
ST-10XME camera. 205 images were taken over a 5 hour period to produce
the photometric data. The data shown in the graph is a five data point
running average of the raw photometric data. The raw image data was reduced
using AIP4Win photometric software.

The Sun: by David Hughes

This image of the sun and sunspot groups 0661, 0662, 0663, 0664 and 0665 was taken on 23 Aug 04 from
Darwin NT, Australia. The telescope was a Celestron C10NGT 10" f/4.7 fitted with a JMB Type A full aperture solar
filter. The image is an eyepiece projection through a televue 25mm Plossl giving 48x magnification and was
taken with an Olympus Camedia C-350 digital camera using a homemade mount.

Transit of Venus - Second Contact: by Sheri Barrington

Meade LX90 f/10 focal reduced to f/6.3, a
white light filter made of Baader Solar Filter Film and a SACIV CCD
Camera with 0.5s exposure. It has been extracted from an
avi video of the ingress using K3CCD Tools. Taken Weymouth, Dorset UK.
Date: 8th June, 2004.

Transit of Venus - Second Contact: by Emil Lenc

The images were taken on a hillside near Whittlesea, Melbourne, Australia. The telescope was a
Meade LX90 8" f/10 with a Meade f/6.3 focal reducer and a Thousand Oaks
Neutral Density 5 filter. The image was taken with a Canon EOS-D30
digital SLR with a 1/60 s exposure (ISO 200). Date: 8th June, 2004.

Composite of two shots of the Full Moon through thin high-level cloud, 8
hours before the total lunar eclipse of 5th May, 2004. Shots taken using a
Canon EOS D60 digital SLR, f=120mm, f/5.6, ISO 400, camera-selected exposure
duration (one shot overexposed by two stops to reveal halo, the other
underexposed by two stops to reveal lunar detail).

California Nebula (NGC1499): by Andrew Mattingly

An image of the California Nebula (NGC1499) extracted from the Second
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2). The image has been coloured by assigning red
to a mosaic of DSS2 Red images and Cyan (to produce white stars) to a
mosaic of DSS2 Blue images. The mosaic of DSS2 Red images was reused as a
luminance layer. The image covers an area of 2.5 x 2 degrees of sky.

NGC 5139: by Trevor Barry

A prime focus image taken in early Feb 2004 on Kodak Max 800 and is a five minute exposure. The
scanned image was unsharp masked in Photoshop.

Messier 8: by Trevor Barry

A prime focus image taken in 1996 on Kodak Royal Gold 1000, is a ten minute exposure and the scanned
image was treated with an unsharp mask in Photoshop.

Movie of Mars at opposition: by Jose RibeiroLeft click to the Quicktime .mov file (58Kb)

Date taken: 26/27 Aug. 2003. The images were taken with a Newtonian 8"
at f/24 in an eq. mount, using a Philips ToUCam. The raw images were processed
with Registax, Iris (for the luminance) and Corel.

Messier 57: by Donn Starkey

Date taken: July 19, 2003. This image of the Ring Nebula is a
quad-color composite image using Johnson-Cousins R, B and V filters, an Halpha
filter and a luminescence [black and white] layer. A C-14 telescope was used,
operating at f/11. An SBIG ST10XME CCD camera was used at 2x2 binning. The
total exposure time for all of the color layers was just over 4 hours. The
image stacking was accomplished using MIRA software. The color processing
was done with AIP4Win software.

The Moon: by Richard Heggie

Date Taken: 9 May 2003,
Where: Sydney. The image was captured at 18:26:56 Sydney Time on Friday 9
May 2003 using a 12" Meade LX200GPS SCT and Canon 10D at prime focus
(3072x2048 pixels at ISO 200 and 1/20 s). The best of twenty images
was selected, cropped in ImagesPlus and sharpened using Lucy-Richardson
adaptive deconvolution 40 iterations with 9x9 Gaussian
Point Spread Function. Histogram adjustment was applied to improve brightness and contrast.

Transit of Mercury, 7 May, 2003: by Jose Ribeiro

Date Taken: 7 May 2003,
Where: Lisbon with a Takahashi fluorite, a 60mm Coronado H-alpha filter and a Mintron video camera.
The composition was processed with IRIS and Corel Photopaint.

Magellanic Stream by Mary Putman (Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado) and Brad Gibson (Swinburne)

Neutral hydrogen map of the Magellanic Stream (with velocities between -400 and +400 km/s) from the
HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and
SMC) are on the left, with trailing hydrogen gas (Magellanic Stream) pointing to the
right, emanating from the SMC. The Magellanic Stream stretches more than
a third of the way around the sky as seen from Earth.

The picture was taken at 4:50AM local time on 9/10/01 in the San
Francisco Bay area. I used a Meade LX90 8"SCT with an SBIG 10E camera. The exposure was .15
seconds using a lunar filter. Photoshop was used for processing
including brightness enhancement of Saturn.

This picture was taken at my small farm outside Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. It was taken on
Oct. 28/2001, at 4:00am local time with a 35mm,f/3.2, 7sec., 200spd film, looking NW.
I live about 15km away from the glare of the city lights so it is usually quite dark here.

Orion, by Steven Marks

This picture was taken at my small farm outside Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. It was taken on
Oct. 28/2001, at 4:00am local time with a 35mm,f/3.2, 14sec., 200spd film. It has Jupiter
over Orion's right shoulder and Saturn in the red glow above Taurus.

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